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There is no stigma. A professor is someone who's supposed to define your country's future by helping people grasp knowledge. Having or not having the right set
by jojobas 3y ago
There is no stigma. A professor is someone who's supposed to define your country's future by helping people grasp knowledge. Having or not having the right set of professors today makes a lot of difference to your country 50 years down the track. Only a small percentage of people can ever build themselves up to do that kind of work.
Welders make steel constructions that are used today. More than half of all people can be trained to weld well.
Having people move from university teaching to trades indicates a strategic misalignment with long-term growth.
- keiferski 3y agoThat’s not how it works in real life. Professors have PhDs in a narrow speciality in their field. They aren’t trained to be excellent teachers and teaching is often an unpleasant afterthought to them, as the main focus is doing research.
- jojobas 3y agoProfessors aren't "trained". If you're not an excellent teacher you have no business being a professor. You're thinking "researcher".
- keiferski 3y agoAgain, that’s not how academia actually works. Professors are hired based on research output and potential, not teaching ability.
- hilux 3y ago"Professor" and "researcher" are synonymous at American research universities. I've worked for two world-famous research universities. Getting tenure is insanely difficult, and has approximately zero to do with teaching ability. (It's different for adjuncts, lecturers, others who are hired to teach. But they have different titles.)